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BODY OF VERAG A EXHUMEOBY KIN State Department Gets Official Report on Incident. NO OFFICIALS ARE INVOLVED Separate Detailed Statements Regarding Matter Made by Consul Garrett and General Bliss Are Corrobora-tive-Demand on Huerta Will Be Made for Punishment of Guilty. Washington, March 11.—The recov ery of the body of Clexneute Vergara, .the American rancher slain by Mexicans, was regarded as having been removed from the realm of international incidents with the receipt of official dispatches showing that the bringing of the corpse out of Mexico was accomplished by Texans and Mexicans having no official status whatsoever. Relatives Pay to Get Body . Consul Garrett, at Nuevo Laredo, and Brigadier General Bliss, commanding the troops on the border, sent practically identical accounts of the affair showing that no Texas rangers had crossed the International border to get Vergara’s corpse. The report of Consul Garrett and of General Bliss shows that Vergara’s body was recovered through the instrumentality of friends and relatives of the dead man with the aid of Mexicans. General Bliss states that S4OO was paid by Vergara’s brother-in-law for the exhumation and delivery of the body on the American side. The con- ' sal’s report shows that he did not 4 as first thought have any advance information of the plan to get the body. Demands Made on Huerta. Secretary Bryan is informing Charge O’Shaughnessy of the reports regarding the recovery of Vergara’s body together with the evidence showing that the ranchman was shot and hanged. This the charge d’affaires will lay before the Huerta government, as proof that the man was killed on Mexican soil and renew his request for the apprehension and punishment of those responsible. It is expected Huerta will endeavor to meet these demands. DEANOFSPORT WRITERS DIES W. W. Naughton Succumbs to Heart Disease at San Francisco. San Francisco, Cal., March 11. —W. W. Naughton, president of the San Francisco Press club and dean of Pacific coast press sporting writers, known the length and breadth of the country, died at his home from heart disease after an illness of a fortnight. Naughton was seized with acute indigestion, attended'by pressure of gas cn the heart, after a late supper and his condition was recognized immediately to be critical, but the following day he rallied and when his physicians permitted him to be returned from St. Mary’s hospital to his home it was believed he would recover. INDICTMENT FOUND IN DYNAMITE PLOT Terre Haute Grand Jury Also r Charges Perjury. Terre Haute, Ind., March 11. —The grand jury which has been investigating election frauds and street car matters returned two indictments. Un Indictment, which is secret, is said to be in connection with the alleged conspiracy to dynamite the homes of Judge C. M. Fortune, Joseph Roach, special prosecutor; Charles Hammill, foreman of the grand jury, and Special Judge, Felix Blankenbaker, who were in charge of the election frauds cases. The bond In the case is $25,000 John Cronin, councilman, was indicted on a charge of perjury. WAGES 0F 15>OOQ MEN CU ’‘ Rate for Steel Puddling Reduced from a $1.20 to a $1.15 Card. Youngstown, 0., Mart.. -I.—At the bi-monthly wage conference held between representatives of tht Amalgamated Association of Iror, Steel and Tin Workers, the Western Bar Iron association and the Republic Iron and Steeh company the rate for puddling fras reduced from a $1.20 to a $1.15 card. This Is a reduction of 15 cents a ■ton in wages and affects 15,000 mill Workers. FORMER MAYOR ENDS LIFE Death* In Family Said to Have Led to Self Destruction. Wabash, Ind., March 11 — Jaipgs K t McHenry, former mayor and stat* representative, committed suicide by shooting. •* •The act Is attributed to several recent deaths in his family. His mother, who died in Cleveland last week, was brought here for burial. .McHenry was a Republican and Knight of Pythias.

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VILHJALMUR STEFANSSON Plans 60C-Mile Dash to North Pole the Coming Winter. I- j i jßb*' it I I @ 1913. by American Press Association Washington, March 7.—Gilbert H. Grosvenor, director and editor of the National Geographic society, has just received a letter from Vilhjhlmur Stefansson, the arctic explorer whose steamer, the Karluk, is gripped in the ice of the Arctic ocean, referring to his plans for the longest slide trip ever made, from Barrow, Alaska, to Prince Patrick island, across the Canadian boundary lint practically 600 miles eastward. “I think I shall make for Prince Patrick island on the Mary Sachs next spring,” the explorer writes, “leaving the Karluk to follow if she gets free. I may even go by sled this winter to lock the ground Qvex te ,,JpL . will be the longest sled trip ever made if I do go, but it looks easy to me.'’ y GEN. H. C. KING IS STRICKEN Distinguished Veteran Has Paralytic Stroke at Theater. NEW YORK.—The General Horatio C. King is in a serious condition at his home, Brooklyn, after a stroke cf paralysis. General King was stricken at a theater. Physicians say that the general’s condition is serious. His strong physique and previous good health are in his favor despite Lis age. The general was seventy-four on Dec. 22 last. General King is one of the most distinguished veterans of the civil war. He was decorated by congress for bravery and won several promotions for meritorious conduct. INCH IS BACK IN NEW BOAT Screech of Whistles Welcomes Volturno Commander to New York. NEW YORK—The Captain Francis Inch, the hero of the disaster to the steamship Volturno, which was burned at sea last Autumn, arrived in command of the new steamship Principello of the Uranium line from Rotterdam, via Halifax. Many vessels and tugs let loose their whistles in greeting to Captain Inch, who was given his new, command because of bravery snown when the Volturno burned. FRANK RESENTENCED TO DIE Slayer of Girl to Be Executed on Birthday, April 17. ATLANTA ,GA.—Leo M. Frank of Biooklyn, N. Y.. has been reseutenced to death here for the murder of Mary Phagan, a factory girl. His execution was set for April 17. His attorneys are working for a new trial. The date set for the execution is the prisoner’s thirtieth birthday, SHARP FOR RUSSIAN POST Ohio Congressman Practically Assured by President for Position, WASHINGTON. — Governor Cox. of Ohio, tild President Wilson he heartily indorsed Representative William G. Sharp of Ohio for the ambassadorship to Russia. The president has practically made up his mind to name Mr. Sharp. Cadillac Man Attempts Hi* Lit*, CADILLAC, MICH, «- Despopdr i dency caused Charles Henderson, a, Cadillac young man to try to commit I suicide. He drank poison, Henderson was married only a few month© ago, and a month ago was arrested on a larceny charge, for which he awaits trial. j .... i Farmer Dies Feeding Stock, i EVANSVILLE, IND.—Llnljtiy Finderick, who was a wealthy farmer and stockman of Pike county, Ind., fell dead while feeding his live stock.

35 DEAD IN FIRE Missouri Athletic Club Burns to the Ground. SEARCH FOR BODIES DELAYED Fire Breaking Out in Dining Room Destroys Missouri Sportsmen’s home and Boatm •n-'u Bank—Property Loss About $350,000 —Many Jump from Windows—Dead and Missing. ST. LOUIS, MO.—Between thirty and thirty-five dead is the estimate made by officers of the Missouri Athletic dub here as the number who perished in the fire that destroyed the seven-story club building occupied by the club and Boatman’s bank. About twenty-nine persons were injured. . The fire broke out about 2 o’clock in the morning and is still burning. Fire Chief Swingley said it would be unsafe to send any one into the ruins to search for the missing for some time. The Known Dead. The known dead follow: John M. Rickey, Chicago, treasurer and auditor Ford Manufacturing Company of St. Paul; A. J. Odegaard, Chicago, sales agent Railway Supply company; L A. Ruff, St. Louis buyer for a wholesale hardware company; Edwin C. Kessler, St. Louis, cashier wire company, killed in leap from sixth floor; James D. Reilly, contractor, St. Louis, body identified by doorman of Missouri A. C.: unidentified man. The man listed as unidentified may be William E. Erd of East St. Louis. Letters in the clothing on the body were addressed to Mr. Erd. The body was identified also as that of Allen Hancock of St. Louis. The Missing. Following is a list of missing: James McGinnis, buyer for large St. Louis department store; Allen Dow, buyer for large St. Louis department ttore; Bert Crouch, sales manager Western Electric company, St. Louis; Allen Hancock, typewriter salesman; Wiliam E. Becker, president of paint company; D. E. Fitzgerald, sales manager Pierce Oil corporation; John Retz, president of plumbing company, William J. Kinser, president construction company; Thames Shyne, sales manager Underwood Typewriter company, Syracuse, N. Y.; William Shields, president lye company; Geo, ’Cdefner," president of* a large commission company; Dan Weatherly, salesman wholesale dry goods company; Thomas Wright, secretary of the Apollo club; J. L. Haihlen, Marx Dammer, manager department store; J. E. Chesley, L. A. Tilley, C. E. Smith, C. E. Hunicke, D. E. Fitzgerald, Marshall Bier, local fur dealer; J E. Cbasnoff, of St. Joseph, Mo., advertising manager for the St. Louis, Republic; Frank W. Albright, traveling salesman; E. P. Williams, New Ycrk, traveling salesman; Roby Green, Herin, 111.; Burgess, guest of members; F. W. Williams, Norman Hancock, St. Louis; —— Wolffson, A. T. Rannus, Mount Vermn, ill. Club Register Showed 135. One hundred and thirty-five persons were registered at toe club for the night. How many of these were in the building at the time of the fire is not known. Os those who were in the club thirty-five have been found. , The property damage is estimated at about $350,000. In the waults of the bank covered by the ruins ar* 1 more than $1,000,000 in currency and $27,000 in coin. At daylight only part of the front and rear walls remained The roof had caved in, carrying several floors with it, and the walls had collapsed from the roof to the ground floor, which is occupied by the bank. When the firemen arrived on the scene the flames were shooting out of the roof and all the windows above the second floor. Men were jumping from windows and others were descending ropes made of bed clothes tied together. Mere than a dozen jumped several stories to the roofs of adjoining buildings and escaped with broken legs or less serious in juries. Baseball Men Escape, One of these who were in the club at the time of the fire, but escaped, is Walter Frisch, financial agent of the St. Louis Federal league baseball club. Mordecai Brown, manager of the club, remained at the olub until a few hours before the fire was discovered, The telephone operator, a young boy, remained at his post on the ground floor (even after the firemen began pouring water Into the building, Many of the guests credited their escape to him. The fire is believed to have originated in the dining room on the third floor, although the police are giving pome credence to the theory that safe blowers may be responsible, as two explosions were heard in the men’s bank, THAW LAWYER IS DISBARRED Clifford W. Hartridge Said to H*y* Spent $39,000 Hiding Witpesse*. NEW YORK- «= Chord W, Hartridge, counsel for Harry K-. Thaw at his first trial for the killing of Stanford WbUe, was disbarred from the practice of law by the appellate division of th® supreme court. The court found that Hartridge had spent $39,000 to induce woman witnesses who might have testified against Thaw to leave the city. j

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INDIANA STATE NEWS Big Optilon Battle la On. MUNCIE, INJ>.—The option election here is one of the bitterest affairs of its kind ever held in the state. Both th© “drys and “wets” have waged a vigorous campaign, and the latter side, so the “drys" charge, have stopped at nothing in an effort to come out with a “wet” majority. It is openly charged that the “wets” imported not leas, than 500 “floaters.” In an effort to stop all illegal voting the “drys” Arranged with Sheriff Jesse G. White for the appointment of fifty or more deputies who are doing duty at thepolls. When Mayor Bunch, who is radically “wet,” learned of the appointment of the deputy sheriffs, he appealed to Governor Ralston over the long-dis-tance telephone for advice, but the state executive taformed him that the election was an entirely local affair and to handle it ———4Sullivan lay* BlackmailSOUTH BEK>, IND. — Colonel Joseph M. SuMivan, prominent politician, delegate $o the state Democratic convention and hotel and saloon proprietor, arrested on a charge of attempting to bribe Chief of Detectives John Kuespert, whom, it is said, he asked to dismiss a “blind tiger” case against him, remained in jail overnight. His attorneys were unable to obtain the $3,000 bond i ecessary for his release. This fact is one of the most surprising developments in the sensational case, as Sullivan is supposed to be worth from $20,000 to $25,000. Sullivan declares he is the victim of blackmail. Through his friends he issued a statement that the police put over a “deal” on him because he refused to Tay weekly tribute for the privilege of disobeying Hie liquor laws. Prison for Ex-Councilman. TERRE HAUTE, IND.—William A; Huffman, a former city councilman, who was convicted in the circuit court here for participating in election frauds, was entenced to serve from three t< ten years in the state penitentiary. He was disfranchised for ten years. Huffman's attorneys filed notice of appeal. Shortly after sentencing Huffman, Judge Charles M. Fortune, on motion of Special Prosecutor Jcseph Roach nolprossed the indictment charging Dr. E. T. Zaring with conspiracy to commit a felony. Zaring was one of the state’s principal witneses against Huffman. . ■> 5U 1 Find Body; Mystery Grows. FORT WAYNE, IND.—The decomposed body of Edward Homer, twenty-eight years <dd, of Payne, 0., was found in the intake basin at the city water works station. Homer, who had formerly been employed as a brakeman on the Nickel Plate railroad, had been missing for the last eight weeks. An examination of the body failed to reveal any wounds. In the pockets of the dead man’s clothing were found his watch, $lO and identification cards. The intake is covered with a tight roof and entrance is gained through a small hatchway, scarcely large enough to admit the body of a man. Co-eds in Diphtheria Scare. BLOOMINGTON, IND.—Because of a diptheria scare here, the Independent Chapter house ts Indiana university, which houses the co-eds of that organization, has been quarantined and,the girls instead of attending school, may spend their time in making fudge. Misses Genevieve Herrick of Logansport and Jane Stevenson of Richmond, believed to be suffering with the disease, have been sent to the university hospital. Traction Employe’s Skull Fractured, FORT WAYNE, IND.—Ray W. Conners, employed by the Fort Wayne and Northern Indiana Traction company, is in a dying condition at the St. Joseph hospital as the result of an accident at the power plant of the concern. He was knocked from a flat car by a swinging crane and his skull was fractured. Fortune Tellers Hard Hit, EVANSVILLE, IND. — Police have started a campaign against fortune teller* and clairvoyants who practice here without licenses. Mrs. Elizabeth Hook was fined $26 and costs in city court and Mr#. Emma Hollander, who read* the future in coffee ground*, received a SSO fine. Runaway Girl Returned. SHELBYVILLE, IND—Pmty Miss Martha Mitchell, seventeen years old. Was returned to her home in Indianapolis by her mother, who called here to get her after she had been detain* cd by the police. She had been playing here with a Yftwleville troupe under th* Blanche Foust. . Auburn Man K'lls Himself, AUBURN, IND.—O. p, Redman, forty-five years pge, committed suicide by shooting himself. A letter employe gives poor health ©nd failing eyesight *8 th* reason. Th* body w*s found ha a roar h-ow et Redpiap'? | Ne Place for Minister’s Son. EVANSVILLE, IND. — Peter W. Schindler, a saloon-keeper, was arrested here on the charge of violating the Sunday closing law. Ernest Burdette, son of a local minister, was found in the saloon and is being held as a witness. „ j sm—mma' ■ I ' ••• usMmsmßMrtm

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LAD KILLS CHUM IN j I “WILD WEST” GAME “Unloadej” Pistol Shoots Doy Through the Heart. RICHMOND, IND. — Ernes*. McDonald, twelve years old, son of Samuel McDonald, was shot and almost instantly killed by his playmate, Robert Creager, aged twelve, at the Creager boy’s home. The shooting was accidental. “Another case of didn’t know the gun was loaded,” said Coroner Pierce sfter an investigation. The homes of the Creager and McDonald families on Boyer street adjoin. Mr. and Mrs. John Creager had gone to visit friends and Ernest McDonald and his young brother went , over to play at the Creager home. ' From what the coroner has been able to learn Robert found his father’s revolver and the boys decided to play “Indian.” Robert pointed the gun at Ernest and fired. The bullet pierced the top of the lad’s heart, but he ran to the back porefl of the house, where he fell dead. Young Creager picked up the body of his playmate and carried it to the front of the house screaming for help. The Creager boy and the younger brother of the dead boy are both in serious .condition as the result of grief. FIRST CONCRETE HIGHWAY Contract for $5,966 Road Made In Elkhart County. GOSHEN, IND. - The contract for the first concrete highway to l be built in Elkhart county has been i awarded by the county commissioners to the Northern Construction company of Elkhart for $5,966.37. It. will run out of Elkhart city a distance of 3,088 feet and will be eighteen feet wide. The road will be an experiment in concrete construction. Bifls for a gravel highway four and one-half miles through Concord township, running out of Elkhart, were taken under consideration. This road is surveyed as part of the Lincoln highway between New York and San Francisco. ® WARM WORDS FOR SHIVELY , President Wilson Praises Hoosier | -v Senator for Warie on Committee. ' WASHINGTON. — President WilWilson has written to Senator Shively of Indiana expressing appreciation of the way in which th? Senator has discharged his duties as acting head of the foreign relations committee since Senator Bacon’s death. “You have certainly performed your duties in away which deserves the gratitude of the country,” the president wrote. “The ratification of the treaties was. of the deepest importance to the country and involved matters which you handled with singular delicacy and success.” PROGRESSIVES START PAPER Indiana Citizen, with 25,000 Circulation, Will Urge New Party Policies. INDIANAPOLIS, IND. — Full of vigorous attacks on both Democrats! and Republicans, the Indiana Citizen, the official organ of the Progressive party in Indiana, appeared for the first time. George Stout is editor, and the list of coniributing editors is headed by former Senator A. J. Beveridge. B. R. Inman, Progressive leader, is business manager. The paper starts with a circulation of 25,000. Os this circulation 15,000 copies is guaranteed by the state central committee of the Progressive party. FISH STORY OPENS SPRING Buffalo Specimen Caught in Indiana Lake Weighs o1 Pound*. ROCHESTER, . IND. — As ths result of seining at Lake Manitou, a i buffalo fish weighing fifty-one pounds j was caught. Only a few other fish remained in the net because <jt the rubbish and logs, which tor© the net. Another haul will be made late in the week. State Fish and Game Commissioner George A. Miles of Indianapolis was a spectator. LAND WINNER SEEKS BRIDE Declares She Must De Old Maio or Unencumbered Wioow to Sult. HAMMOND, IND. — Samuel Crew, a Monon Railroad engineer, who won first dv dug in the t? rt Peck land lettery ir. Moi ana, wants a biide to live- with him on the 161 ; aepea. She must be “an old maid or ! an unencumbered widow no Venu?, chorus girl or card iraynr, and without a temperament." His land drawing is valued at COUPLE IS MARRIED ON CAR Preacher Saved Couple Trouble ol Going to His Home. WINCHESTER, IND.—Roscoe L Regar, son of Mr. and Mrs. William R. Regar, and Miss Hazel Grace Wright, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William E. Wright, were married on a traction car near here. 4 1

JACOB RIIS 1 Abandon* Lecture Tour to Take Treatment at a Sanitarium. | I- - , „ ... J I BATTLE CREEK, MlCH—Jacob Riis, who collapsed at New Oreleans while on a lecture tour, has a rived at a local sanitarium. Physicians announced that the condition Mr. Riis is not alarming, but that he must rest and avoid any violent exertion. I SHORT CUTS TO THE NEWS | The Italian cabinet has resigned. The Wabash car shops at Moberly, Mo., were burned with a loss of $200,000. Governor Walsh of Massachusetts has refused to allow his salary to be raised. New York is to build a fourteenstory structure to be used as a jail for women. Twenty I. W. marchers were hunt when routed by the police of Sacramento, Cal. The house passed a bill barring convictmade goods from interstate commerce: .. The Japanese parliament ha* reduced the naval estimate by ths sum of $20,000,000. Former President Taft deplores the influence of newspapers on jurors, in an address at Boston. A* loss by fire of $500,000 was sustained when flames attacked the business section of Terre Haute, Ind. Senator Fall, of New Mexico, in hot speech, denounced the Wilson policy in Mexico and urged intervention. Granite City, 111. girl sues electric railway because car’s crew flirted with her. She asks $20,000 damages. The Sims measure, repealing the law for free tolls to American coastwise trade wa§ drawn more than a year ago. 1 More than three million eggs, consigned from China to points in the United States have arrived at Vancouver, B. C. The Chinese government has borrowed $25,000,000 from the Bethlehem steel works and will establish a naval base at Fuchow. George W.*Vanderbilt, who died in Washington last week, left no son and the $1,000,000 estate goes to Cornelius Vanderbilt under an old will. Unionists have launched a campaign to raise SIOO,OOO to defend Carl E. Person, labor editor, in jail at Clinton , la., on charge of killing strikebreaker. “Persons unknown” are now said , to have entered Mexico and taken the body of Clemente Vergara from its grave. The news was a belief to Washington. t Theodore Roosevelt will go to Spain at the conclusion of bis South Amer- 1 ican trip to be present at the wedding 1 of his son Kermit to Miss Belle Wyatt 1 Willard. 1 William Durst, only survivor of the 1 Monitor’s crew, celebrates the anni- ' varsary of the entrance of the boat into Hampton roads. He is seventy- ' five years cld. Premier Asquith laid before the 1 house of commons his Ulster bill. Each county is to decide on a six-year 1 I exclusion from the first meeting of the , new Irish parliament. William J. Cummins, one time head of Carnegie Trust company, after I evading prison 900 days taken to jail to serve four-year sentence. Convicted of larceny of $140,000. ( Charged with “malfeasance in of- ( flee” indictments were returned ; against Judge H. C. Gilbert of the j Jackson county court and former , judge E. E. Axline of Kansas City. The Supreme court refused to re- , view the “dynamiting cases” of Frank , M, Ryan of Chicago and twenty-three , other defendants. Only a pardon can , keep the convicted men from the pen- j itentiary. Shreveport judge, John R- Land, • bars forever from service as jurors the twelve men who acquitted a man and his wife of jnurder charge. Action followed a mass meeting, protesting against alleged miscarriage of justice. < A militant suffragette, angry be- 1 cause of the arrest of Mrs. Pankhurst 1 in Glasgow, slashed 1 the famous paint- ’ ing, “Rokeby Venus,” which hangs in < the British National gallery. The picture is valued at $500,000. The woman ' Waa arrested. . •___ I '

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ST. PAULJ Y. HIT Commerce Commission Scathingly Cenounces System. REVENUES INCORRECTLY RIVEN Charge That Concern Juggled Books to Obtain Higher Freight Rates and Better Market for Securities—Actual Value of Road Not Impaired—Report Causes Sensation. WASHINGTON. — Scathing condemnation of the system of accounting of the Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound Railway company is contained in a report made public by the interestate commerce commission, as the result of its first investigation to Ascertain whether the railroads of the country are obeying the system it accounting presribed by the commission. The principal charges of deception cited are: That the St. Paul company exaggerated its income for 1910 by more than $5,000,000. That for 1911 the road reported a $2,000,000 decrease in Income which it falsely informed its stockholders was due to failure to obtain higher freight rates and to increased cost of labor. That the Puget Sound company falsely reported an. income of more than $2,000,00(4 for 1910 and used the fictitious showing- of profit to boom the sale of its bonds to the public. That the Puset Sound company falsely reported a valuation of its properties which was SIOO. TOO,OOO In excess of the cash investm mt. That by a reducticw of tl.e rate of depreciation the St. Paul lu s inflated its net operation income 500,000 a year. '• In spite of the reports of irregularities in St. Paul financing, v lich have been current for a year or nore, the report issued by the c< mmiseion caused a sensation here. ’he reference to the scheme by whi h the St. Paul sought to show bXtft slfication the need .of increased freigt t rates is regarded as significant, ina ;niuch as the question of a 5 per cen advance in tariffs is pending before mission. The carriers are endeavoring to establish their claim to an advance by a showing ts loss c revenue. The actual values of the t ads havenot been Impaired by the fal ificatlons and thss St. ,Pauf and Pai »t Sound roads have promised to see hat their books are properly kept in the future. CITIES AID TO PROSTITUTION Judge Lindsey Declares Ten Per tent of Women Fall. , DENVER- — “Ten per cent of the women in the cities of this country are engaged directly, or indirectly in prostitution,” said Judge Ben B. Lindsey at a luncheon of the Civic Federation. He was defending the mothers’ compensation act, exactly as it reads in this state, so that it includes all mothers, regardless of the fact whether they are widowed or deserted. “It is an appalling fact,” he said, “that about one-half, of the women of child-bearing age are unmarried, as a result of this condition police investigations throughout the country show that in nearly all the large cities, 10 per cent of the women of child-bear-ing age are engaged in prostitution, or occasional prostitution. The illegitimate birth rate is on the increase, while the legitimate birth rate is on the decrease. Civilization is fast becoming a conspiracy against nature.* “LEAKS” IN TAX INFORMATION Internal Revenue Officials to Investigate Income Stories in Newspapers. WASHINGTON—The off Mais of the internal revenue service are to start an investigation relathe to the accuracy of reports which have been published concerning income tax returns as made by individuals in Chicago. Complaints have come to Washington from persons making re' urns that the amount of their incomes has been made public in violation of the provisions of the law which' is supposed to secure secrecy. TAKES DOWN ROOT’S BILL it Will Be Senate Measure t> Repeal the Free tolls. WASHINGTON. —At on e after the presidents message to congress for the repeal of the law giving free tolls to American oast-wise trade, bills embodying tht recommendations were brought ou« Representative Sims’ bill in the house and Senator Root’s bi 1 in the senate, which had been hanging up, were taken from the files, an 1 will be the measures for free tolls in each house. TO DROP CHURCH RIOT CASES Continuance Taken So Trouble Can Be Settled Out of Court. SOUTH BEND, IND—The cases of the members cf the Casimir’s Polish Catholic church, charred with contempt of court, as a resu t of the rioting at the church <m Feb. 15, were continued in court. It is understood the authori les have agreed to drop the cases it th j trouble »t the church is settled. —— rrwr — '

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